In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu is made up of intricate world-building, clever language development, and stories-within-stories-within-stories. There’s a lot packed into this little novella! Julia and Victoria do their best to parse through it and how it made them feel.
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Mentioned in this episode:
In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
Game for practicing neopronouns
Book Club episode 068 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Pachinko TV show on AppleTV
Voyage Into Genre episode S. Qiouyi Lu and Silvia Moreno-Garcia Talk Neo-Pronouns and Genre-Hopping
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia
S. Qiouyi Lu’s publications
Book Club episode 092 The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
Book Club episode 090 Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
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Ghost in the Shell (1995 anime film)
The Matrix(1999 film)
Attack on Titan (anime TV series)
Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
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